A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

In this sense even an elect and regenerate person supposed to be a maintainer or follower of Here•e (while such) is certainly, [Greek or Hebrew], unapproved, greatly reprovable, to be rejected and cast away to the furnace like drossy and unrefined silver, and no marvel, for in that estate he doth not act his graces but his corruptions, and by his great sin doth extremely grieve and dangerously quench the holy Spirit once given to him.

In this sense even an elect and regenerat person supposed to be a maintainer or follower of Here•e (while such) is certainly, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, unapproved, greatly reproveable, to be rejected and cast away to the fornace like drossie and unrefined silver, and no marvel, for in that estate he doth not act his graces but his corruptions, and by his great sin doth extreamly grieve and dangerously quench the holy Spirit once given to him.

To the other objection I answer, First, Although the full and perfect discovery (who are approved, who not) is reserved to the great and last day, and there is no company, Assembly, nor visible Church in this world, without a mixture of Hypocrites, ⟨p. 122⟩yet surely the word of the Lord hath been and shall be so far fulfilled, that in a great measure and according to the knowledge which the church can have of her members in this life, there is in times of Heresies and Schisms a discovery made who are the approved Ones, who not. 2. We must remember tis not the scope of this Text to give us a note of distinction between these who are approved, and all counterfeits or unapproved Christians, but between these who are approved, and these who are the fomenters or followers of Heresies. Thus they who are indeed approved of God continue in the truth of Christ, grounded and settled, and stand fast in the faith and contend for it: and this is one of the characters, found in all such as are approved. And thus far, saith Augustine, are Heretics profitable to the Church, for by their means, those